Hello!

I am looking for a cross-platform, open source, ANSI-C, non-blocking memory allocator. That's pretty specific, but hopefully there is one out there .

I am looking for this because I have an application that has several threads. Each thread malloc's ~80 MB of memory each cycle for inter-thread communication, and each thread cycles about ~1000 times a second (because the threads cleanup up after each other the memory usage idles around ~150 MB per thread). After profiling my application I noticed one of the slowest things was memory management, because if two threads where allocating or freeing memory at the same time one thread would have to wait for the other too finish before it could continue. It makes sense that this would cause a performance drop, because that ~80MB is composed of thousands of malloc's/free's, and that's done ~1000 times a second per thread.

I could implement one of the several methods for multithreaded memory management solutions (buckets, free lists, etc), but for the sake of time and simplicity, is there a pre-existing non-blocking memory allocator that someone can refer me to?

Thanks!